Dressed in true Justin Bieber fashion, the 21-year-old singer closed out the American Music Awards late last month clad in ripped jeans falling mid-thigh, a long white tee under a baggy beige sweatshirt, white Vans and a trucker hat. Bieber performed a never-before-heard medley of his latest hit singles ...
“If you have some kind of talent, do it. Whatever it is,” said Fred Jackson, wheeling around a high-backed chair in his greenhouse office on the top floor of the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching. “Get into it. You know what I mean?” Jackson, for his part, is into everything. ...
Local company New Harvest Coffee celebrated its 15th anniversary on Friday. Friends, colleagues and college students all came together in the warm hall of the historic Providence Arcade, and every person held either a cup of coffee or a glass of whiskey — sometimes both. In addition to coffee, the ...
Student dancers from groups including Attitude Dance Company, Dance Extension, Fusion Dance Company, imPulse Dance Company and Brown Ground Breakin’ united this weekend on the Fall Dance Concert stage. The concert, which took place in the Ashamu Dance Studio, featured all student-choreoghraphed dances ...
“These writers work to humanize black lives,” said Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Anthony Bogues at the Writing for a Broken World event last night. Just moments later, the writers he referenced — Jesmyn Ward and Edwidge Danticat MFA’93 — walked out on the Martinos ...
Navigating Spaces is the second of four final projects for PHP 1680I: “Pathology to Power: Disability, Health and Community.” This article is the second in a series that covers students’ attempts to increase the visibility of disability on campus. Today at 3:30 p.m., Alumnae Hall will host “Navigating ...
Taking a departure from the multisyllabic science language omnipresent in many science publications and journals, the Triple Helix seeks to put the science occurring around students every day into context. TTH, a student-run science publication that includes a blog and a biannual magazine exploring ...
Through varied media including visual arts, photography, poetry and music, Juliana Huxtable explores the boundaries of identity. The artist shared how she carves out a unique niche of self-expression during a talk at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Tuesday in the most recent installment of ...
By 8 p.m. on Saturday night, the seats of MacMillian 117 were nearly filled — the audience chattering in eager anticipation of “Pitch Please: An Aca-Benefit Battle.” Organized and hosted by Brown’s Global Brigades, the battle featured three of Brown’s a cappella groups, and one group from ...
Brown University Gilbert & Sullivan held their annual fall production this weeekend, performing a unique interpretation of “Princess Ida.” The reworked production featured a shifted tone and a more empowered Ida to make the play more accessible to modern audiences. The play tells the story of ...
In Sock and Buskin’s newest production “The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry,” legend and history come together to present a portrait of mid-19th-century life from a segment of the American population not usually depicted: the Black Seminoles, a group of black and Native American people. Written ...
As it happens, the weariness of the Sharpe Refectory menu fuels a desire for new food options. The Asian Cafe, a sushi restaurant that recently opened across from Tealuxe on Angell Street, attempts to satisfy that craving — but some sub-par dishes in the restaurant’s varied menu leave the customer ...
Three Brown faculty members from the Department of Music performed in a showcase Monday night at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts that accompanied the 2015 Faculty Exhibition. From more traditional performances on an instrument to a multimedia synthesis, their efforts attracted and entertained ...
Interactive projections, movable paintings and a musical statue, alongside more traditional paintings and sculptures, have transformed the David Winton Bell Gallery for the 2015 Faculty Exhibition. The display, which features artists across various disciplines and highlights interaction among different ...
#dispix is one of the four final projects for PHP 1680I: “Pathology to Power: Disability, Health and Community.” This article is the first in a series that will cover students’ attempts to increase the visibility of disability on campus. An expectant buzz filled the Brown/RISD Hillel Social Hall ...
Salomon Center was filled with savory aromas and diverse music ranging from Japanese folk to rap this weekend as the Asian American Heritage Series of the Brown Center for Students of Color hosted its annual Legends of the SEA event Saturday night. The event concluded ASEAN Week, a celebration of Southeast ...
The best animated short films from across the globe — cute, creepy and everything in between — were screened at the traveling 17th annual Animation Show of Shows on Sunday at the Rhode Island School of Design. For almost a decade Ron Diamond, the Show’s creator and ACME Filmworks founder, has ...
Assorted costumed characters — including Mario, Loki and a ukulele-playing Marshall Lee — migrated to downtown Providence last weekend, claiming the Rhode Island Convention Center and the Dunkin’ Donuts Center as their own. Attendees lined up for photographs on the Iron Throne and autographs from ...
Employing the wit of the legendary humorist and cartoonist S. J. Perelman, originally a member of the class of 1925, Sean Kelly ’84 expounded on his film “The Sophisticated Silliness of S. J. Perelman ’25” to an audience of students, faculty members and community members in the Lownes Room of ...
John Bender, a radio journalist for Rhode Island Public Radio, describes himself as the “man behind the scenes.” Bender researches stories for RIPR’s Morning Edition segment and records features on community stories. Bender sat down with The Herald before his talk entitled “The Essentials of ...
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